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Ok, we'll try to explain how to built your own The Pirate Kiosk. You need 3 things:
a database dump of The Pirate Bay and/or all the torrent files hosted there
a tracker software and
a website
At first, we downloaded a dump of TPB from TPB itself. After that, we downloaded some pages from TPB and defaced the HTML, but you don't really have to this. All you need is a website indexing all the torrents you have. That is still our biggest problem, we have no solution for a working details.php nor for getting the .torrent out of the database. So we just ...

There are quite a few conversations and discussion going on at different places in the Internet right now. The sheer mass of them makes it impossible to answer everything, so we would like to add the following general comments.
Some people wished that the Kiosk should be connected to the Internet. That would be pointless. TPB is still up running and there are services ready to replace them (in the Internet) if they should ever sink. Why are we certain about it? The power of TPB lies in the swarm, and thats YOU.
Quite many users fantasized about connecting several of this ...

Dear users and abusers, dear Elders of the Internet,
the Kiosk of Piracy is proud to announce the launch of "The Pirate Kiosk"! From last night own, a copy of the infamous Pirate Bay is available to the public, but – here comes the catch – offline-only. Yes, offline, the Kiosk is not connected to the Internet in any way, but the interested public is invited to use the service in a wifi-radius around it.
With our newest project, we are joining the work of the dear people and groups which managed to duplicate the contents of The Pirate Bay on other ...

We have backed up The Pirate Bays torrents in the range from 5,000,000 to 5,077,257.
This is the first step to ensure the future availability of pirated content, not only in the Internetz. To reach this goal, we will further backup all available torrents and add them to our own offline tracker, opening this weekend.
This tracker, dubbed The Pirate Kiosk will establish the first torrent tracker in public space and provide a service similar to The Pirate Bay.
ned@tortuga:~/tpbdump/5$ ./get.sh 5000000 5100000
#wget cinema for a few hours
ned@tortuga:~/tpbdump/$ tar -cjvvf 5.tar.bz2 5/
#tar & bz2 cinema for an hour or so
ned@tortuga:~/tpbdump$ du --si 5/
1,2G 5/
ned@tortuga:~/tpbdump$ ...

The Weimar-based KoCA — Kiosk of Contemporary Art was squatted by Anonymous, using it to install the Kiosk of Piracy there. The KOP aims to be a think tank and physical host for offline net activism, such as projects about the sense and absense of copyright and intellectual property (aka Copyfight).
The first project by KOP is The Pirate Kiosk, the world’s largest offline Bittorrent tracker. It is a extended copy of ThePirateBay.org running on a dedicated server inside the Kiosk. It is not connected to the Internet, though providing all the services (web archive, torrent tracker, upload function) via Wifi in a 100-200m range around the ...